Achaemenides hitched a ride with this figure, who carries with him household deities called the Penates; this man's enemies included Mezentius and Amata. His mother saves him from Diomedes, but he is 
Achaemenides hitched a ride with this figure, who carries with him household deities called the Penates; this man's enemies included Mezentius and Amata. His mother saves him from Diomedes, but he is wounded in the process, and then saved by Apollo. His [*] father, made lame as a punishment for fathering him, is Anchises. After being visited in a dream by his friend Hector, he flees Troy, and this son of Venus later sails from Carthage despite the appeals of Dido. For 10 points, name this man whose descendant Romulus founded Rome, the title character of an epic poem by Virgil.
Achaemenides hitched a ride with this figure, who carries with him household deities called the Penates; this man's enemies included Mezentius and Amata.
Aeneas [AJ]